When you splurge on a cocktail in a bar, the drink often comes with a slab of aesthetically pleasing, perfectly clear ice.

The science pros at TKOR teach how to make soda cap containers in under three minutes.

Many common kitchen items contain hidden plastics or plastic-like materials, from coatings to linings to microplastic ...

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Nick DeSimone is a pasta-obsessed vegetarian chef who spent nearly 10 years in restaurants before becoming a food writer. They review kitchen products for Food & Wine and love plant-based and Southern ...

Fast food items found to have very high levels of certain plastics included Burger King's Whopper with cheese.

Got a round plastic lid lying around in your kitchen? With a some burlap, skewers, and a glass bottle, you can turn it into ...

As a result, plastics must be carefully sorted into relatively pure streams, which pushes up recycling costs and reduces efficiency. Mechanical recycling — the dominant method worldwide — involves ...

Winter transforms your car into something of a mobile freezer, and while that’s great for keeping your road trip snacks cold, ...

A friend of mine is producing a series of HOWTO videos for an open source project, and discovered that he needed a better ...

Super absorbent polymers (SAPs) have quietly become one of the most influential material innovations of the modern era. Known for their extraordinary ability to absorb and retain large amounts of ...

As Jamaica recovers from prolonged drought conditions and Hurricane Mellisa, many communities are nevertheless still facing severe disruptions to their water supply. Damaged pipelines, power outages ...